Category Archives: Canada

Union files complaints as feds increase public servants' in-office time
OTTAWA - Canada's largest federal public sector union has filed several unfair labour practice complaints - and another union is warning of a possible strike - as the government moves to increase publ...
Feb 06, 2026

Supreme Court ruling sets out exception to confidentiality between lawyer and client
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says there can be an exception to a lawyer's duty to keep conversations with a client confidential when the lawyer needs the information to defend themselves again...
Feb 06, 2026

Some U.S. alcohol to return to Quebec stores before quality drops, minister says
MONTREAL - Quebec's finance minister says some U.S. alcohol will be returning to the province's liquor store shelves before the quality drops. Eric Girard says the only products authorized to be sold ...
Feb 06, 2026
Here's a quick glance at unemployment rates for January, by Canadian city
OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.5 per cent in January. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, h...
Feb 06, 2026
Here's a quick glance at unemployment rates for January, by province
OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.5 per cent in January. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 9...
Feb 06, 2026
National employment numbers for January from Statistics Canada, at a glance
OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's January employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.5 per cent (6.8) Employment rate: 60.8 per cent (60.9) Participation ra...
Feb 06, 2026

In the news today: Anand in Greenland, January job numbers, Olympics begin
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Foreign affairs minister to open consulate in Greenland today Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is set to o...
Feb 06, 2026

Inside the 'con code', the unwritten rules that may be fuelling prison violence
VANCOUVER - In a Surrey, B.C., pretrial centre, an inmate is goaded into fighting his cellmate - dubbed a "rat" by fellow prisoners - but then dies after being put in a 10-minute chokehold. In a Vanco...
Feb 06, 2026

Greenland's foreign minister hails new Canadian consulate as 'historic'
NUUK - The Canadian flag was raised and dozens of people joined in a spontaneous version of O Canada on Friday as Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand officially opened the new consulate in Nuuk, Gree...
Feb 06, 2026

What Trump's aspiration to conquer Greenland means for Canada
NUUK - Canada's closest physical neighbours are in an escalating dispute that risks breaking the military alliance that has protected the nations of the North Atlantic for decades. U.S. President Dona...
Feb 06, 2026